Based on the true story of Countess Elizabeth Bathory, perhaps one of the greatest mass murderers of all time, a woman who tortured and killed over 600 young women for their blood Too noble to be executed, in 1610 the “Bloody Lady of Cachtice” was bricked up in a set of rooms in her own castle in Slovakia. Why then should the young and beautiful Katya be at the castle door attracting the close attention of the gaoler and wanting a job looking after Countess? Is it revenge or some more ghostly visit from Bathory’s past? And if she should help her escape … Starring Josephine Arden, Mike Garnell, Fiz Marcus, and Andrew Ward

Summary

Summary

Based on the true story of Countess Elizabeth Bathory, perhaps one of the greatest mass murderers of all time, a woman who tortured and killed over 600 young women for their blood

Too noble to be executed, in 1610 the “Bloody Lady of Cachtice” was bricked up in a set of rooms in her own castle in Slovakia. Why then should the young and beautiful Katya be at the castle door attracting the close attention of the gaoler and wanting a job looking after Countess? Is it revenge or some more ghostly visit from Bathory’s past? And if she should help her escape …

Starring Josephine Arden, Mike Garnell, Fiz Marcus, and Andrew Ward

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Author Bio: Marty Ross

Marty Ross is the author of a series of dramas for BBC Radio, from the afternoon plays A Hundred Miles, A Breath from Other Planets, My Blue Piano, Rough Magick and last year’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk to the popular serials Ghost Zone and Catch My Breath to the series The Darker Side of the Border.

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